Crawfish synonyms

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shellfish (related)
Any of various edible aquatic invertebrate animals having a shell, especially mollusks such as clams and oysters, and crustaceans such as lobsters, crabs, and shrimp.
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crayfish
(New England, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota) A freshwater crustacean (Cambaridae) resembling a small lobster, sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
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crawdad
(US, regional) The crayfish.
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crustacean
Any of a subphylum (Crustacea) of arthropods, including shrimps, crabs, barnacles, and lobsters, that usually live in the water and breathe through gills: they have a hard outer shell and jointed appendages
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pull in one's horns
make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
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crawdaddy
small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
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ecrevisse
tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
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retreat
To withdraw; make a retreat
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back-away
(Intransitive) To move in a direction opposite where one is facing, keeping some (most) of your attention on the thing in front being avoided.
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crawfish-out
make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
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withdraw
To recall or remove a motion from consideration in parliamentary procedure.
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lobster (related)
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shrimp (related)
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barramundi (related)
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spiny-lobster
A crustacean superficially resembling a true lobster, belonging to the Palinuridae family.
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Crawfish Sentence Examples

  • Blind crawfish (Cambarus pellucidus)inhabit the Crawfish Spring.

  • Ortmann has traced the centre of dispersal of the fresh-water Crawfish genera Cambarus, Potamobius and Cambaroides to eastern Asia, where their common ancestors lived in Cretaceous time.

  • Have your oysters raw, boiled, chargrilled or fried, along with shrimp, crab claws, catfish and crawfish.

  • Some catfish, shad, smelt, halibut, herring, perch, sturgeon, flounders, oysters, clams, crabs and crawfish are also obtained from Oregon waters.

  • Ms. Martinez said she was initially skeptical about using lobsters or crawfish for research.

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